Door check



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DOOR. CHECK Edward Frank, Berkeley, Calif.

Application July 18, 1938, Serial No. 219,738

1 Claim. (Cl. 292288) This invention relates to devices for use withlegs 4 apart and flexing the bridge 6 so that when doors or the like forreleasably maintaining the the check is brought to rest in its ultimateposilatter in various open positions. tion, the surfaces 1 of the legswill be firmly It is an object of the invention to provide a pressedagainst the front and rear surfaces of simple and low-cost door check.the door. If the gap between the door and floor 5 Another object of theinvention is to provide is wider than usual and it is found that after adevice of the character described which may the check has been mountedthe latter does not be quickly and easily mounted on and removed contactthe floor, downward pressure may be from the door. applied to the upperends of the legs to shift the 10 The invention possesses other objectsand feacheck downwardly until the desired contact is 10 tures ofadvantage some of which, together with obtained. the foregoing, will bespecifically set forth in the The door check of my invention justdescribed detailed description of the invention hereunto is obviouslyquite simple both in construction and annexed. It is to be understoodthat the invenin its method of application, may be easily attion is notto be limited to the specific form tached to and removed from variousdoors about 15 thereof herein shown and described as various the house,may be satisfactorily applied by the other forms thereof may be employedwithin the ordinary unskilled housewife, and will not scratch scope ofthe appended claim. or otherwise mar the surface of the floor.

Referring to the drawing: Besides functioning to hold doors in variousFigure 1 is aperspective view illustrating a poropen positions, thecheck may be applied also 20 tion of a door structure and showing thedoor to the vertical edge of the door where it will serve check of myinvention mounted thereon. as a bumper to prevent the door from slammingFigure 2 is a top plan view of the door check shut. This is particularlyuseful in connection alone. with doors equipped with glass panels as ithas Figure 3 is a front elevational view of the strucbeen known that thesevere shock imposed on the 25 ture shown in Figure 2. panel by suddenlyslamming a door of this char- In detail, the door check of my inventioncomacter is often sufficient to crack or shatter the prises a preferablyU-shaped member composed glass. The check is also useful to prevent anofrubber or other similar elastic substance having noying rattling ofdoors whose latch bolts have a pair of spaced legs 4 joined together atone end become worn. By placing a check on the door 30 by an integralarcuate bridge 6. The inner conas shown in Figure 1 and closing thedoor, the fronting faces I of the legs 4 are normally disslight movementof the latter allowed by the loose posed in angular relation so that thelegs, at their or worn latch will be prevented. distal ends, aresubstantially in contact with each Having thus described my invention,what I other, and a portion of each leg is cut away so claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Pat- 35 as to provide, at one side of thedoor check, a ent is:

V-shaped notch formed by the inclined surfaces A device of the characterdescribed comprising 8 which border the leg faces 1. a substantiallyU-shaped resilient member having It is intended that the check shall bemounted a pair of spaced legs and an integral flexible on a door 9between the bottom edge ll thereof bridge portion joining said legstogether at one 40 and the surface of the floor l2. This is done by endthereof, said legs in their normal unfiexed placing the check on thefloor with the legs 4 positions being in close proximity at the otherpointing upwardly and with the notch formed ends thereof opposite saidbridge portion, each by the angular surfaces 8 contacting the verticalof said legs having a surface portion thereof con- 5 edges of the door.Manual pressure is then apfronting the other of the legs angularlyinclined plied to push the bridge portion 6 of the check to provide in aside of said U-shaped member a horizontally into the gap between thebottom of depression of V-shaped cross-sectional form, and the door andthe surface of the floor. As the said depression extending substantiallythe entire check is moved, the edges l3 of the door will ride length ofsaid legs.

along the inclined surfaces 8 thereby forcing the EDWARD FRANK. 50

